The External Control of Organizations

A Resource Dependence Perspective

By: Gerald R. Salancik, Jeffrey Pfeffer

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This work explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints. All organizations are dependent on the environment for their survival. It contends that it is the fact of the organization's dependence on the environment that makes the external constraint and control of organizational behaviour both possible and almost inevitable. Organizations can either try to change their environments through political means or form interorganizational relationships to control or absorb uncertainty.

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"Two of the best minds in the business, Pfeffer and Salancik crafted this powerful argument that remains timely and timeless. That's the true test of a classic. The External Control of Organizations is a trusted, durable, evocative work." - Karl E. Weick,Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, University of Michigan Business School "Launching the resource dependence theory of organizations, this influential work was the first to recognize the power of the wider social-political environment as a force shaping organizational structure and behavior. Recognizing that all organizations must acquire resources from the environment as a condition of their survival, Pfeffer and Salancik demonstrate how resource dependence gives rise to power problems and, potentially, to political solutions." - W. Richard Scott,Stanford University "Pfeffer and Salancik have produced a good, persuasive statement of the resource dependence view... Their book is a welcome effort to formulate the perspective more completely, weigh the relevant empirical evidence, and develop implications for organizational design." - Administrative Science Quarterly

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Acknowledgments and Dedication of the Classic Edition	p. ix
Introduction to the Classic Edition	p. xi
Preface	p. xxi
An External Perspective on Organizations	p. 1
Overview	p. 2
Internal versus External Perspectives on Organizations	p. 6
Basic Concepts for a Contextual Perspective	p. 10
The Role of Management	p. 16
Summary	p. 19
Organization and Social Context Defined	p. 23
Interest Groups and Coalitions: Organizations as Markets for Influence and Control	p. 24
Competing Demands	p. 27
Organizational Boundaries and the Partial Inclusion of Participants	p. 29
Organizational Effectiveness	p. 33
Summary	p. 36
Social Control of Organizations	p. 39
Interdependence	p. 40
The Social Control of Organizational Choice	p. 43
Empirical Examinations of Interoganizational Influence	p. 54
Summary	p. 59
The Organizational Environment and How It Is Known	p. 62
Dimensions of the Environment	p. 63
The Interconnectedness of Organizations	p. 69
The Enactment Process--How Environments Are Known	p. 70
Determinants of the Enactment Process	p. 74
Problems in Environmental Enactment	p. 78
The Assessment of External Demands	p. 84
Summary	p. 88
Managing Organizational Demands: Adaptation and Avoidance	p. 92
An Environment of Conflicting Interests	p. 93
Organizational Compliance	p. 94
Avoiding Influence as an Organizational Response	p. 95
Managing the Conditions of Social Control	p. 97
Managing and Avoiding Dependence	p. 106
Summary	p. 110
Altering Organizational Interdependence: Controlling the Context of Control	p. 113
Using Merger to Cope with Interdependence	p. 114
Patterns of Vertical Mergers	p. 115
Mergers Within the Same Industry: Reducing Competitive Uncertainty	p. 123
Diversification: Determining Interorganizational Dependence	p. 126
Organizational Growth	p. 131
Summary	p. 139
The Negotiated Environment: Establishing Collective Structures of Interorganizational Action	p. 143
Normative Coordination of Interdependence	p. 147
Interorganizational Cooperation: The Case of Joint Ventures	p. 152
Patterns of Joint Venture Activity	p. 157
Cooptation: The Use of Interlocking Boards of Directors	p. 161
Hospital Boards of Directors	p. 170
Organized Coordination of Interdependence: Associations, Coalitions, and Cartels	p. 175
Summary	p. 182
The Created Environment: Controlling Interdependence Through Law and Social Sanction	p. 188
Rationalization of Political Choice	p. 191
Organizational Legitimacy	p. 193
Regulation: State Management of the Economic Environment	p. 202
The Organization as a Political Actor	p. 213
Summary	p. 222
Executive Succession: A Mechanism for Environmental Effects	p. 225
A Model of Environmental Effects	p. 228
Organizational Context and Intraorganizational Power	p. 230
Executive Succession and Organizational Power	p. 236
Executive Discretion and Organizational Decision Making	p. 244
Executive Recruitment and Interfirm Coordination	p. 247
Summary	p. 252
The Design and Management of Externally Controlled Organizations	p. 257
A Resource Dependence Perspective	p. 258
Three Managerial Roles	p. 262
Designing Externally Controlled Organizations	p. 268
Designing Organizational Environments	p. 278
Organizational Futures	p. 281
Index	p. 289
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